Apr 29, 2017
The following were taken from actual incident reports filed last week by the City of Charleston Police Department. These are not convictions and the names of businesses, complainants, and suspects have been left out to protect the innocent. All suspects are innocent...
Apr 29, 2017
It is not yet summer, and I am certainly not finished drinking the wonder ambers, pale ales and bocks of spring. However, yesterday the temperature was 84 degrees and not a cloud was in the sky. As a friend of mine and I popped over to a local filling station, our...
Apr 29, 2017
Sculptor Rick Weaver captured the body language of Fritz Hollings just right in a new statue unveiled Monday in Charleston as former colleagues heaped praises on the retired senator, now 95. Three things stand out in the bronze figure – the warm, but determined, look...
Apr 29, 2017
Rumors are swirling that the City of Charleston is interested in purchasing the property formerly occupied by Piggly Wiggly at “suicide merge” at Sam Rittenberg Boulevard and Old Towne Road and converting the 2.5-acre parcel into a park. Faison Enterprises of...
Apr 20, 2017
Ardmore, the West Ashley neighborhood better known for low-rent houses and higher crime, is fighting to change everyone’s perceptions of it. And just in time, too, because the white wave of gentrification is about to crash into it. Racially mixed and mostly poor,...
